Re: [OpenBIOS] sis 630 boots to multiuser from nvram from power-on

Ronald G Minnich  wrote:
> from power on, linux boots so fast that our ide hard disk is not ready, 
> so does not show as present. The cdrom doesn't have such a problem. 
> So you have to hit reset :-(
> This is going to mean a kernel repair possibly. Not sure. 
> I don't want to handle this in the traditional sleep(3) fashion. 
> There's way too much of that nonsense in Linux already, esp. 
> in /etc/rc.d/*

Ugh! Flashbacks to my Amiga 1200 days where I had a hard disk that didn't
spin up in time for the Kickstart to read it.  Later revisions of the
AmigaOS added a delay loop here.

A saner method would be to poll the IDE ports for a 'ready' signal.
But what about systems without IDE ?  We could add a timeout to the
poll loop.. Hmm, more thinking needed.
> It's only going to use 64M of ram, no matter what you put in there. 
> We're working on that. I've figured out how to have linuxbios
> pass params to the kernel. Hint: it's not something mentioned on this
> list yet :-)

What does /proc/nvram make of LinuxBIOS ?
Or are we not setting that up yet?

regards,